Re: Help with Ms-Access

On Dec 3, 10:01 am, Jeffrey Davis <jpm1..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone here can give me some assistance with a
> database I'm trying to set up. My skills in Access are fairly basic,
> and I'm trying to skill up, but some of the stuff is a little opaque.
>
> I'm trying to put some data I've got on paper into Access. Recently, I
> got together with some other people marketing organic produce and
> offered to do some marketing for us on a coop basis in the city.
>
> The idea I had was to have four marketing packages for coop members
> with different rates and services. For want of something better lets
> call them P1, P2, P3 & P4
>
> I'm thinking I'll need a table with the packages, and one listing the
> coop members with their details. In theory, a coop member might
> acquire another farm (either a new one or one from someone bailing
> out) and put it on a separate package.
>
> Which tables would have to have a relationship?
>
> I'm thinking the packages table containing the dat about each package
> would have to be related via a common field to the coop member table,
> and there would probably have to be a link between that and the farm
> table, through common fields -- maybe a unique ID in the coop member
> table could appear in the farm table and maybe the primary key from
> the package table could also appear in the farm table as a foreign
> key. But am I right?
>
> I'd also like to create a form that would list an individual coop
> member's details plus any packages they own and assume that all I'd
> need to do would be to ensure that there was a specified report for
> the form to call. Is that right? Is 'switchboard manager' the way to
> go here?
>
> I'd also like to create a macro to automatically open the database.
> I've had a bit of a look through Access and maybe I've missed it, but
> could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> JD

Further to this, it occurs to me that if I'm going to permit coop members to have more than one package then maybe I need some sort of transactions table in which the records would be packages actually taken out. Each record could contain the ID from the relevant farm (the transactions table being the 'one' and the farm being the many) and an ID from the packages table (eg P1 to P4) where the transactions table could be the many.

Am I in a muddle here or on the right track?

JD Received on Mon Dec 03 2007 - 00:38:49 CET